Find the next number in the sequence

5 12 24 36 ?

It is a six-letter word.
The first four letters are me.
The second and last letters are the same.
The fourth second and last letter is payment.

Who is it?

The peacock is a bird that does not lay eggs. How do they get baby peacocks?

I am a normal creature, but I have five hands. I can even have more but even then I will be considered normal.

Who am I?

In particular commonwealth games, a female participant won silver and gold medals for a single event.

How can this be possible?

Find the number of squares in the below-given picture.

I can be cracked, made, told, and played. What am I?

While house hunting in London, I came across a very good leasehold property Discussing the lease the landlady told me:

'The property was originally on a 99 years lease and two-thirds of the time passed is equal to four-fifths of the time to come. Now work it out for yourself and see how many years are to go!

What part of Turkey has the most feathers?

The pound is not a finish.

We are sharing a few instructions below, which you have to use in any suitable order to modify the above sentence such that the end sentence is a scientific fact.

- Eliminate a letter and supplement another in its place.
- Take away one word.
- Remove one letter from one word.
- Get rid of two letters from one word.
- Swap a word with its antonym.